Watch as a Belfast mum of five explains how she is going blind after having both her eyeballs tattooed - despite a warning from her seven-year-old daughter
A Belfast law student admits she regrets not listening to her seven-year-old daughter’s warning she could go blind if she got her eyeballs tattooed - as she’s now losing her sight.
After months without complications, Anaya was in for a shock when she woke up in August last year, to see that her eyelids appeared "swollen" as though her "face had been inflated with air" and looking like she’d done "10 rounds with Mike Tyson". Anaya claims that her daughter India was never on board with the unusual tattoo, as she feared that her mum would "go blind" - which she claims she now faces as her sight deteriorates.
“I took the option to go [to hospital] myself. They gave me surgery and took samples of my eye. They wouldn’t have been able to do it while I was awake, I would have been an absolute nightmare, so they put me to sleep. Anaya has been told by ophthalmologists that she is now at a very high risk of contracting glaucoma, and her eyesight is already worsening, claiming that her vision is clouded by "hundreds of thousands of floaters".
“If I didn’t have my eyeballs tattooed, I wouldn’t be having this problem. Even today I woke up with more floaters in my eyes. And that is dangerous. I can’t get these eye tattoos out. I’m always going to have this problem. So, I basically think that as I get older, it’s just best to let me go blind.
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